emanating

Flowing out from

Emanating is the present participle of emanate, which means to flow out from a source or origin.

Light emanates from the sun, heat emanates from a fire, and a strange smell might emanate from the basement.

The word applies equally well to abstract things: Confidence emanated from her every gesture.

When something is described as emanating, it suggests a continuous outward movement or spread from a central point, whether physical like radiation or intangible like influence or authority.

aura

exuding

Discharging slowly through pores

presence · energy · atmosphere · ambience · charisma · magnetism · mystique · allure · essence · feeling

spreading

diffusing

Spreading particles or light

propagating · radiating · disseminating · transmitting · wafting · seeping · percolating · pervading · suffusing · flowing

radiance

radiating

Sending out from center

shining · illuminating · gleaming · luminosity · effulgence · brightness · incandescence · phosphorescence · fluorescence · shimmer

source

originating

Coming into existence

flowing · springing · deriving · emerging · proceeding · coming forth · welling · sourcing · starting · beginning

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direction of flow

emanatingabsorbing

Holding attention completely

receiving · taking in · inhaling · ingesting · drawing in

origination vs. destination

emanatingconverging

Moving toward sameness

arriving · terminating · entering · concluding · gathering

source vs. destination

emanatingconverging

Moving toward sameness

arriving · terminating · ending · entering · inflowing

Family

emanation, emanations

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